RALEIGH, August 5, 2013: The NC 10% Campaign, which encourages all North Carolina individuals and businesses to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally-produced food, has hit a big milestone. The Campaign, which counts over 6500 individuals and 850 businesses among its supporters, has tracked $40 million in local foods purchases since July [...]
RALEIGH (October 12, 2012) —Break out the North Carolina Chardonnay and raise a toast: the NC 10% Campaign has hit a big milestone. The 10% Campaign, a Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) initiative, encourages all North Carolinians to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally grown and produced foods. The Campaign has [...]
The adage "health is wealth" is proving true for a host of North Carolina cities and counties. As the costs of treating nutrition-related diseases like obesity rise (estimated to be $147 billion in 2008) and the disease-fighting benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables are proven, municipalities from the mountains to the coast are making [...]
The NC 10% Campaign -- which encourages all North Carolinians to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally grown and produced foods -- has taken off in 2012! The Campaign's website is now tracking over $16 million in local foods purchases by more than 4900 individuals and 600 businesses. Partnerships are key to [...]
The NC 10% Campaign and the Park Scholars program at NC State have created a video to promote local foods on college campuses. The video will be seen all summer long at the NC State campus theater -- before every movie shown! Watch the video, "I'm a Local". From the May 2012 [...]
RALEIGH (March 7, 2012) —Lowe’s Foods Stores, Inc. of Winston-Salem has signed on as a major partner of the 10% Campaign, a North Carolina initiative designed to encourage consumers to spend 10 percent of their food budget on locally-produced foods. The 10% Campaign was launched in 2010 by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a [...]
Individuals, businesses and governments embrace initiative to grow N.C.’s economy RALEIGH (July 20, 2011) —The Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ statewide initiative to stimulate economic development, create jobs and promote North Carolina’s farms and fisheries today announced that more than $5.7 million in local foods expenditures have been reported by local individuals, organizations and institutions [...]
All 33 N.C. stores pledge to source more local foods RALEIGH (April 11, 2011) —Piggly Wiggly, “America’s first” self-service grocery store has added another first to its list: the first grocery store to pledge to buy more foods from local producers as part of its commitment to the 10% Campaign. Preston Taylor owns and manages [...]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NC State University RALEIGH (November 23, 2010) — Since July, North Carolinians participating in the 10% Campaign have spent more than $2 million on food from local sources. The 10% Campaign is an effort to educate and encourage consumers to spend 10 percent of their food dollars on locally [...]
31 Businesses/Organizations Already on Board to Support the 10% Campaign RALEIGH, N.C. (July 21, 2010) — The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) today launched a new statewide effort to build North Carolina's local food economy. The 10% Campaign encourages consumers to spend 10 percent of their existing food dollars on foods produced in North [...]
